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Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Sometimes I Like Red in the Garden

For someone who is not a big fan of red in the garden I certainly have an awful lot of it here right now. I will admit that on a gloomy gray Central California winter day some bright red accents can be welcome in the garden. It's here in the form of berries on nandina and cotoneaster,

flowers like cyclamen and these very welcome red items that we picked yesterday!

The kids were so excited to see some of the radishes were ready...and they gobbled them up! They were good...not too hot like they can get in the summer. I know Cindy! I do think nandina has it's place. I like the movement it has when the breeze picks up on a hot summer afternoon too.

Red is fine by me in winter, but like you, I'm not crazy about it as a flower color. That one photo looks like a hand-tinted black & white, the foliage colors are so muted compared with those bright berries.